Monthly Archives: July, 1996

MOBILEMEDIA DUMPS ITS OWN EX ECS FOLLOWING MOBILECOMM BUY

MobileMedia Corp. apparently has outgrown the talents of its leaders.Six months after the company purchased MobileComm from BellSouth Corp., MobileMedia Chief Executive Officer Gregory...

POSTING STRONG EARNINGS, 360 GOES LIVE WITH CDMA IN VEGAS

NEW YORK-3607 Communications Co. announced it plans to begin offering Code Division Multiple Access digital cellular service commercially early next month in Las Vegas.The...

RE-AUCTION OF 18 C-BLOCK PERMITS SURPASSES ORIGINAL BID PRICES

WASHINGTON-Looking forward to the next round of personal communications services auctions set to begin Aug. 26, Michele Farquhar, chief of the Federal Communications Commission's...

PARKER RESIGNS FROM CELLSTAR

Strong growth tugged a little tight on the selling, general and administrative expenses of CellStar Corp., which reported a $2 million operating loss for...

LUCENT TO SUPPLY CLEARNET PCS WITH MONEY, EQUIPMENT

TORONTO, Canada-Clearnet Communications Inc. announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Clearnet PCS Inc., has entered into a memorandum of understanding to purchase and finance an...

HOUSE’S COBURN BACKS BILL-AND-KEEP PROPOSAL

WASHINGTON-Rep. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said the new telecommunications law does not erase federal jurisdiction of wireless telecommunications, a strong statement aimed at dissuading federal...

MOBILEWARE, AT&T JOINTLY TO MARKET SOFTWARE, SERVICES

DALLAS-MobileWare Corp. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced an agreement to participate in joint sales and marketing activities for MobileWare software and wireless data...

MICRONETIC’S IC MONITORS THE IN TEGRITY OF RF PORTION OF NETWORK

Micronetics Wireless Inc. is close to receiving patents for its MicroCal Module, a recently developed integrated circuit that facilitates self-monitoring in wireless equipment, reported...

NEXTEL BUYS 30 PERCENT STAKE IN PHILIPPINE WIRELESS PROVIDER

SEATTLE-McCaw International Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nextel Communications Inc., announced it has purchased a 30 percent interest in Infocom Communications Network Inc.,...

XYPOINT’S SOFTWARE TAKES ON 911 RIDDLE

SEATTLE-Xypoint Corp. is developing enhanced 911 applications that will help wireless carriers and emergency dispatchers determine the location of wireless callers.These groups don't have...

CLINTON LAUNCHES ANTI-CRIME CAMPAIGN USING DONATED HANDSETS: BUT THREATENS TO VETO MORE POLICE FUNDING

WASHINGTON-President Clinton last week launched a new anti-crime program to equip neighborhood watch groups with cellular telephones donated by industry, while threatening to veto...

VIEWPOINT

I received a phone call at home one evening from an AT&T long distance salesman. How was I doing, and what long-distance carrier did...

TCSI DEVELOPS SOFTWARE FOR JA PAN’S PDCMARKET

BERKELEY, Calif.-TCSI Corp. announced it has successfully completed development and testing of software for the Japanese Personal Digital Cellular standard's newest Revision C.The company...

CTIA UNVEILS APPYS TO HONOR INNOVATION

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association announced a new awards program to recognize innovative work in the field of wireless applications technology.Winners of the first...

CROCKETT RESIGNS FROM COMSAT CORP.

BETHESDA, Md.-Comsat Corp. announced the resignation of Bruce Crockett as president, chief executive officer and director of the corporation amidst second quarter earnings that...

DAVIDS AND GOLIATHS PREPARE WIRELESS NETWORKS FOR OLYMPICS

NEW YORK-Measures of Olympic proportions undertaken by the heavyweights of industry have gone into developing the communications systems for the Summer Games, which begin...

DESPITE WILD WIRELESS GROWTH, PENETRATION IS STILL LOW IN ASIA

LONDON-By the year 2005 there will be nearly 120 million cellular subscribers in Asia and the Pacific, according to a new study from CIT...

NEW RETAIL CHAIN HAS PLANS TO OF FER WIRELESS PRODUCTS

DALLAS-A new chain of communications superstores called Communications Expo is scheduled to open its first store in Dallas next month, announced Paging Network Inc.,...

GROUPS MOUNT CAMPAIGN TO AUC TION TV SPECTRUM

WASHINGTON-Fifty-eight arts, education and consumer groups signed off on a July 11 letter to five congressmen to "express*...*profound dismay" on their recent letter to...

ORANGE WINS AD DISPUTE AGAINST RIVAL VODAFONE

U.K. wireless operator Orange plc claimed victory last week after a High Court judge dismissed a complaint made by Vodafone Group plc following the...

PRONET BUYS 931 MHZ LICENSE FROM MOTOROLA FOR $43 MILLION

ProNet Inc. paid Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Information and Media Sector $43 million cash for its 931.9 MHz nationwide one-way paging license and associated Embarc...

APC WILL FORWARD TRADED-IN PHONES TO RECELLULAR INC.

DEXTER, Mich.-ReCellular Inc. announced it has reached an agreement with personal communications services provider American Personal Communications to acquire and remanufacture its traded-in cellular...

CARRIERS SHOW OFF SERVICE AT GOP NAT’L CONVENTION

Lone personal communications services provider Pacific Bell Mobile Systems, regional cellular carriers, paging providers and rental companies will try to leave no stone unturned...

D.C. RESELLER COMPLAINS SKYTEL STOLE CUSTOMERS

WASHINGTON-Claiming that nationwide paging provider SkyTel Corp. has robbed it of prime customers and millions of dollars in lost revenues, paging reseller Time Signal...

PCS CARRIER TO USE CBIS BILLING SYSTEM

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. will deploy Cincinnati Bell Information Systems' Precedent 2000 Wireless Business Management Solution for its personal communications services network.Sprint Spectrum...
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